Video: Off-duty Calif. deputy stops assault on woman

Video shows a woman struggling to get out of the driver’s seat of a car as a man chokes her from behind before an armed off-duty deputy intervenes

Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.

YUBA CITY, Calif. — Chilling cellphone footage shared on social media this week shows a man choking a woman in Yuba City before an armed, off-duty deputy steps in.

The video – with more than 600 shares on Facebook as of Tuesday afternoon – showed a woman struggling to get out of the driver’s seat of a car as a man in the car wrapped his arm around her neck, choking her from behind. The incident occurred Monday in the Walmart shopping center on Harter Parkway. As the woman just manages to free herself, a man pointing a gun approaches and tells the suspect to get out of the car.

The Good Samaritan was an off-duty Sutter County sheriff’s deputy, Undersheriff Jeff Pierce said Tuesday.